All I was missing to finish Wheel of Challenges was an EarthCache and a Mystery. Mystery caches are all over the city. Annoyingly so, actually. Austin has a very persistent crop of puzzle solvers and (more importantly) puzzle makers, meaning that there's a plethora of Mysteries out there of various difficulties. This is also a … Continue reading Simple Enough →

So, I recently had a chat with some friends regarding the most current incarnation of the Wheel of Challenges, Iconic Cacher. We all have a couple of the same complications: there haven't been a ton of Events around here lately, and some of us have claimed all of some of the cache types in the … Continue reading The Lengths I Will Go To →

A cache has been sitting on my map for years, one of the oldest mystery caches in the area. I had ventured toward it a couple of times in the past, only to realize that the closest way was not viable because of backyard fences. Still, it sat there on my map, taunting me. Yesterday, … Continue reading Yesterday, I Sucked →

... an epic trip to Nebraska might not be in the cards just yet. So, fun fact about the way I usually plan trips: I use a big online mapper, usually the one favored by the computational juggernaut based out of Redmond (it allows twenty-five locations, as opposed to the biggest search engine's ten) to … Continue reading After Further Consideration… →

Over the weekend, I took the new vehicle out for some driving and acclimation. The primary excuse was to get an idea of the gas mileage. For all the flaws of my old car, it got great mileage. The new one on paper is supposed to get similar, or possibly slightly worse, mileage, but the … Continue reading Shakedown Cruises →

Ok, maybe that's a bit of hyperbole. I'm hardly Dorothea Lange or Man Ray, either. But they could only dream of the tools I have at my disposal! As I promised long, long ago, I have had my phone camera repaired! I initially considered replacing my phone, but the cost wasn't to my liking. That, … Continue reading I’m Ansel Adams, Y’all! →

I am not the brightest tool in the shed, folks.* That is why, when I went to look for my cache a couple of days ago, I began to examine the tree firmly planted at GZ, examining the roots for niches, looking up into the branches for clips and zip ties. I walked around and … Continue reading Both Dumb And Mortified! →

This weekend has been a weekend like many others. The girls came down from L-Town, we hung around and did things for a few days, and then they headed back. Pretty boring from a macro perspective. On the other hand, there were two significant events from a caching perspective, the first being ... ... that … Continue reading Novel Monotony →

Yesterday, I found an Unknown related to the grave of an early record-holding baseball player. That would normally be worthy of an entry, but it's not what's on my mind at the moment. Most people who think about geocaching probably never even consider the word "geopolitics" in conjunction. Normally I don't either, but that doesn't … Continue reading Geopolitics →

A couple of months ago, I went to get a cache (a D1/T1) and signed what I thought was the log. The CO deleted my find, telling me that I only found the swag container, not the actual cache itself. It almost killed my streak (that I'm not officially keeping, but whatever), but I had … Continue reading Trivial Opinions →